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I have successfully installed MINT on my son's laptop, now my question is...and I've read the manual first, is how he can make the text and graphics bigger. He can barely read the text, as it is too small.

Whhoooops....should've noted that. I'm not sure; but will check and have an answer tomorrow, if you don't mind waiting for that info. I'm grateful for your quick response! I must say, I'm very happy that my son is working easily on MINT. Hmmmmm....thinking back, something tells me GNOME sounds right. I'll have a definite answer tomorrow, though!

Got it..thanks! Can I ask you another question? One issue we're not familiar with, is how to make the web site we're looking at fit the screen. There'a a lot of background space on each side of the web site we're going to, and I have no idea what that would be called, and where to find it!

richyrich wrote:Hi Again . . . What display resolution are you using ? ( example: mines at 1200 x 1024)

EDIT: Menu -> Control Center -> Hardware -> Display

I think we may be having a different issue....I'm not sure if I posted this here or not, but the web page is not filling the screen, (lots of empty space on the left and right side of any web page we look at) thus making the text and everything, too small. What would that be? In the meantime, I'll try to find out the res he's using.

richyrich wrote:Hi Again . . . What display resolution are you using ? ( example: mines at 1200 x 1024)

EDIT: Menu -> Control Center -> Hardware -> Display

I think we may be having a different issue....I'm not sure if I posted this here or not, but the web page is not filling the screen, (lots of empty space on the left and right side of any web page we look at) thus making the text and everything, too small. What would that be? In the meantime, I'll try to find out the res he's using.

The screen resolution he's on is: 1920 X 1024. He says the ONLY other resolution choice it gives is 800 X 600, and needless to say, is way too small. Does that help any?

star55 wrote:The screen resolution he's on is: 1920 X 1024. He says the ONLY other resolution choice it gives is 800 X 600, and needless to say, is way too small. Does that help any?

He has a widescreen (landscape) display, more horizontal than vertical.. 16:9 ratio (vertical:horizontal)--like a movie screenMost until now web sites have shown in portrait mode, more vertical than wide 4:3 ratio (vertical:horizontal)--like a book, newspaper, portrait photograph..http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t ... refox.htmlpost 8, 10 offer some suggestions..

http://www.bizzia.com/articles/tweak-fi ... it-to-169/NA /ready for Firefox 3x yet..His setting of 1900x1024 is not correct for a widescreen display, it is usally more like 1900x1200 If those are his only selections 800x600 and 1920x1024, then the video card settings in the desktop are probably not all they can be; That is, he doesn't have the native/binary drivers for the video card installed, and we don't know which video card, nvidia, ATI or intel etc../etc/X11/xorg.conf would need some adjustments for other resolutions..

Some quick checks he can doIn the terminal, check

inxi -G--graphics card datainxi -F--short list of all the hardwareglxinfo--first few lines for the video driver being used

star55 wrote:The screen resolution he's on is: 1920 X 1024. He says the ONLY other resolution choice it gives is 800 X 600, and needless to say, is way too small. Does that help any?

He has a widescreen (landscape) display, more horizontal than vertical.. 16:9 ratio (vertical:horizontal)--like a movie screenMost until now web sites have shown in portrait mode, more vertical than wide 4:3 ratio (vertical:horizontal)--like a book, newspaper, portrait photograph..http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t ... refox.htmlpost 8, 10 offer some suggestions..

http://www.bizzia.com/articles/tweak-fi ... it-to-169/NA /ready for Firefox 3x yet..His setting of 1900x1024 is not correct for a widescreen display, it is usally more like 1900x1200 If those are his only selections 800x600 and 1920x1024, then the video card settings in the desktop are probably not all they can be; That is, he doesn't have the native/binary drivers for the video card installed, and we don't know which video card, nvidia, ATI or intel etc../etc/X11/xorg.conf would need some adjustments for other resolutions..

Some quick checks he can doIn the terminal, check

inxi -G--graphics card datainxi -F--short list of all the hardwareglxinfo--first few lines for the video driver being used

Ok, we'll get to work on that. It may be a few days before I can report back, though! Thanks for the help...I hope we can figure this out!!